Name: Aimee Ferris
Biographical Information:
Aimee Ferris left the corporate world after her company made an ill-fated decision to send her to Hawaii on a ten-week-business trip. After living in Fiji, she joined a regatta and sailed the South Pacific landing as a PADI divemaster on the Great Barrier Reef, before relocating to the Caribbean to try her hand at training dolphins. Skydiving, playing a dead body in a dinner theatre, white water rafting, and feeding sharks underwater also made the list of prospective occupations before she settled on a career of making stuff up. She now juggles freelancing for a few dozen national magazines (where she does not make stuff up), photographing her travel work and writing books for teens.
Featured Book: Will Work for Prom Dress. Quigley Johnson learns to “measure twice and cut once” in this fun and flirty novel about fashion design and art that follows two seniors as they scheme their way through a series of disastrous odd jobs as part of a ‘Betterment Plan’ to nail down the perfect dress, and date, for the big dance.
Other Titles: Girl Overboard
Age Group of Materials published: Teen
Honors:
Bill’s Best Books 2007 (ALAN)
NPR Commentator and Children’s Author, Daniel Pinkwater – Recommendation